Earnings from continuing operations was just 0. 10. Terrible numbers from certain sectors. Iously, retail search obviously, retail front and center. Market, kind of a mixed bag. Terrible data, yet equities tried to stage a rally earlier. Now futures flipping into more negative territory. Definitely the eurodollar and dollaryen are two to watch today. The yen was significantly higher thats butt all dies all eyes really on retail data later. Lets get some more market moving news from our new york and brussels teams. We want to start in the u. S. , where we are expecting more of that dire economic data. Many nonessential stores are closed. We also get Industrial Production. Michael mckee, International Policy and economics correspondent, joins us now. Michael i will give you guidance for the year, dismal. It is only a question of how bad they are going to be. Retail shrank by 8. 7 in march, when things were just getting started. In april, americans spent all of the time at home, not going
100 bucks perhaps in the cards instacart readying its wall street debut pricing at 30, thats the first of five listings this week it is amongst the first of the tech unicorns the last few years to go public thats almost two years, in fact, since weve seen one go public lets begin with the markets and the fed kicking off a twoday policy meeting yields got a little pop here, jim, on canadas cpi, reaccelerating for the second straight month. What a bummer the fed must find itself in were not building enough homes. Lennar said last week a lot of brokerage houses raised numbers. Lennar today almost a de laid reaction we just dont have enough homes. We have this huge millennial bulge, and theres just no doubt about it they will not be deterred by these rates. That doesnt mean they wont be deterred by higher rates these rates, according to Stuart Miller who i think is the dean of the group and executive chairman of lennar arent detouring anybody. You have fewer homes you have the one thing th
Core cpi is 1. 7 or 1. 6. It allows the fed to go slow and not disrupt market conditions. Gradual pushup in inflation back to normal, we dont see anything that will push inflation to levels where it becomes a market issue or forces Central Banks to accelerate any rate hike plans they may have. You should probably start to tighten when you see the whites of the eyes of inflation. 1. 4 core pce aint anywhere near the whites of anybodys eyes. The biggest risk is clients getting in and eyeing duration right now. We want some duration on portfolio, but too much duration is risk. We dont think this trend is going to be structural. It is transitory in nature. We think investors should be rewarded for going on the other side of that. The bond markets continue to be distorted. It is extraordinary to see. We just talked about u. K. Inflation heading up, putting pressure on inflation rates all over the world. The bond markets are still not responding, and appear very stretched. Jonathan joining m
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